The latest in Karachi

Gunmen kill five including Muslim cleric in Pakistan

2010-03-11T13:15:54Z

<div><p>Pakistani authorities on Thursday said unidentified gunmen killed five people including the head of a hardline religious organisation in two separate shooting incidents in Karachi.</p><p>Both attacks were "sectarian killings" said a senior official for the southern province of Sindh. The port city of Karachi, Pakistan's economic hub, is the capital of Sindh.</p><...

Pakistan Al Qaida Arrest

2010-03-08T05:46:22Z

Soldiers of Pakistan paramilitary force search vehicles as security enhanced in Karachi, Pakistan on Monday, March 8, 2010. The American-born spokesman for al-Qaida has been arrested by Pakistani intelligence officers in the southern city of Karachi, two officers and a government official said Sunday as video emerged of him urging U.S. Muslims to attack t...

Suspect arrested in Pakistan not Gadahn: officials

2010-03-08T01:00:23Z

<div><p>KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistani security agents denied on Monday that an American al Qaeda spokesman wanted in the United States for treason had been arrested, saying there had been confusion over the identity of a detained suspect.</p><p>Some Pakistani officials had said on Sunday that IntelCenter Sunday, March 7, 2010, shows Adam Gadahn, featured in a video posted Sunday, coincidentally the day that his arrest by Pakistani intelligence officers in the southern city of Karachi was announced. In the video the 31-year-old American a...

Key al-Qaida, Taliban arrests in Pakistan

2010-03-07T12:45:08Z

<div id="subtitle">Arrests of key al-Qaida and Taliban militants in Pakistan since Sept. 11 attacks</div><div><p>Pakistan has stepped up its efforts to arrest al-Qaida and Afghan Taliban militants in recent weeks following intense pressure from Washington. A look ...

Suicide car bomber kills four in NW Pakistan

2010-02-27T03:30:07Z

<div><p>PARACHINAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed three policemen and a child Saturday in an attack on a police station in a northwestern Pakistani town, police said.</p><p>Al Qaeda-linked Pakistani militants have carried out numerous attacks on members of the security forces over the past coup...

Pakistan

2010-02-19T03:01:15Z

Alleged Taliban commander Abdullah, who goes by the alias Abu Waqas, gestures during his appearance at a court in Karachi, Pakistan Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010. According to police officials Abdullah was involved in recruiting female suicide bombers and was arrested in Karachi while planning terrorist act...

Pakistani city tense as mourners bury bomb victims

2010-02-22T11:28:00Z

<div><p>KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistan's commercial capital Karachi was tense on Saturday a day after two bombs killed 31 people, raising further questions about the effectiveness of security crackdowns on al Qaeda-linked militants.</p><p&gt...

APTOPIX Pakistan

2010-02-05T07:16:07Z

People look at dead bodies of bomb blast victims at a local hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, on Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. A bomb tore through a bus carrying Shiite Muslim worshippers. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

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5 killed in bomb attack on hospital in Pakistan

2010-02-22T11:29:27Z

<div><p>Police say at least five people have been killed by the bomb that went off outside a hospital in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi.</p><p>The hospital was treating many of the victims of a bombing targeting the city's minority Shiite Muslim community earlier Friday.</p><p>Police official

Political violence sparks protest in Pakistan's Karachi

2010-02-22T22:05:20Z

<div><p>Thousands of people poured onto the streets of Pakistan's financial capital Karachi on Monday to protest at a security crackdown after dozens of people died in political violence.</p><p>Security officials say up to 48 political party workers have been killed in Karachi since Thursday, when the headless body of a worker from the city's main ...

Pakistani couple kills baby in sacrificial ritual

2010-02-22T22:16:40Z

<div id="subtitle">Pakistan couple follow witch doctor's request and kill 3 month-old baby in sacrificial ritual</div><div><p>Pakistani police have arrested a couple on charges of stabbing their 3-month-old baby to death in a black magic ritual they believed would get them rich.</p><p>Police officer Hazoor Bukhsh says officers recovered a 3-year-old girl who they fe...

Pakistani party says won't quit after violence vow

2010-02-22T22:21:45Z

<div><p>KARACHI (Reuters) - A regional Pakistani party said on Monday it would not quit the ruling coalition after it won government assurance of efforts to stop violence against its political workers in the commercial hub of Karachi.</p><p>About 40 people, most of them rival political activists, have been killed in four days of v...

Pakistan Britain

2010-01-10T10:00:14Z

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, center, talks to unidentified Pakistani officials during his visit to the mausoleum of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the father of the nation, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010 in Karachi, Pakistan. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

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Wave of political killings hits southern Pakistan

2010-02-23T01:08:55Z

<div id="subtitle">Wave of political violence including beheadings in Pakistan's largest city leaves dozens dead</div><div><p>Dozens of people have been killed in Pakistan's largest city including four found Sunday — three of them headless — in a wave of targeted attacks among rival political groups that some say is aimed at destabilizing the country's ruling coalition.</p>&l...

Blast kills eight insurgents at Pakistan militant safe house

2010-02-22T23:25:05Z

<div><p>Eight suspected insurgents were killed Friday when explosives intended for a bomb attack accidentally blew up, destroying a militant safe house in Pakistan's financial capital Karachi, police said.</p><p>Guns, grenades and suicide vests were recovered from the house in a poor Karachi neighbourhood, which officials said was a den for Islamis...

Blast kills eight insurgents in Pakistan

2010-02-22T23:25:31Z

Blast kills eight insurgents at Pakistan militant den

2010-02-22T23:31:02Z

<div><p>Eight suspected insurgents were killed Friday when their cache of explosives accidentally blew up, destroying a militant safe house in Pakistan's financial capital Karachi, police said.</p><p>Guns, grenades and suicide vests were recovered from the house in a poor Karachi neighbourhood, which officials said was a den for Islamist insurgents...

Blast kills 8 at alleged militant den in Pakistan's Karachi

2010-02-22T23:31:03Z

<div><p>A blast flattened a house being used by militants in Pakistan's financial capital Karachi on Friday, with eight people killed when explosives apparently detonated accidentally, police said.</p><p>Guns, grenades and suicide vests were recovered from the house in the poor Baldia Town neighbourhood, while bodies were buried under the rubble as...

Blast kills 7 at alleged militant den in Pakistan's Karachi

2010-02-22T23:31:04Z

<div><p>An explosion flattened a house being used by militants in Pakistan's financial capital Karachi on Friday, with seven people killed when bomb-making materials detonated accidentally, police said.</p><p>Guns, grenades and suicide vests were recovered from the house in the poor Baldia Town neighbourhood, while bodies were buried under the rubb...